[K12OSN] Scary article from Russia (w/o love)

Tue May 19 17:56:23 UTC 2009

It is in fact ready for plenty of desktops.  I've been using it 
exclusively at home for most of the decade.  It's not for EVERYONE, but 
neither is windows or OSX.  Making a blanket statement that is not ready 
is trolling and should be treated as such.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM , Moon wrote:

  Based on the comments from the Linux side, I believe one can easily 
see why Linux is NOT truly ready for the desktop. If anyone that thinks 
it is, based on applications and usability, then they are obviously not 
basing their opinion on fact.

I have been using Linux exclusively as my desktop platform for the past 
two years (willing to work through and around Linux desktop's shot 
comings) and can tell you honestly that there are a lot of shortcomings 
in Linux as a desktop client. Note that I have used CentOS, Fedora, and 
Ubuntu for the last four plus releases, as well as deployed K12LTSP and 
K12Linux in school labs for the past two plus years, so I have had 
extensive experience with the usability as well as issues with Linux.

Continuing to blindly favor and praise Linux desktop solely because of 
ones prejudices against Microsoft is foolishness and continues to cause 
Linux to not address it's weaknesses and enhance it's usability for 
desktop users. Out of the box experience, what 90% of the computing user 
world experiences, determines their preferences, and if they have to go 
through Linux setup/configuration Hell to do it, guess what, they won't. 
Look at the statistics for the number of returned Linux based Netbook 
PCs vs Windows XP based Netbook PCs, that alone should tell us 
something.

It is in Linux best interest to seriously tune and optimize their 
desktop offerings. Secondly, Linux seriously needs a Small Business 
Server platform that competes with Microsoft's SBS. Continuing to ignore 
these two key areas will continue to be Linux Achilles heel to wider 
adoption.

Red Hat can continue to blindly ignore desktop and Small Business Server 
opportunities to their own demise, but Ubuntu and SUSE will eventually 
fulfill that niche and eventually surpass Red Hat. Keep in mind that the 
lions share of businesses are small.

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:00 -0600, David L. Willson wrote: I resemble 
that.  For my part, I think Linux is completely ready for the desktop, 
but I'm not sure that the users are ready and I'm not sure that IT 
people are as ready as they think they are.  So, my general-purpose 
advice is this:  Go ahead and pilot Linux on the desktop, with an eye 
toward full deployment, but make darn sure you have a safety net: a 
Windows Terminal Server, a Virtual Machine, or a dual-boot handy for 
anything you might have overlooked.  Working without a net is bad 
geekery.  It scares users, and it should.  Be humble.  Serve the users 
that feed you.  Study as hard as you can.  Never, ever attack people, 
even when they're being "stupid" and "deserve it". --David ----- 
"Terrell Prude' Jr." < microman at cmosnetworks.com 
<mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com> > wrote: > He's only done part of his 
homework.  And some of those "points" are > just plain wrong.  I smell 
an MCSE at work there.... > > --TP > > Alan Hodson wrote: > > Check out 
Tashkinov's article: > 
http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.html 
<http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.html> 
> > Serious food for thought! > > > > > > Alan A Hodson MEd. > > 
Instructional Applications Analyst > > El Paso Independent School 
District > > oF: 915-887-6871 > > fX: 915-772-4016 > > Nxt:915-892-0389 
> > aahodson at episd.org <mailto:aahodson at episd.org> > > 
http://links.episd.org/ <http://links.episd.org/> > > Open Source 
Grokker > > http://tinyurl.com/3e4sh8 <http://tinyurl.com/3e4sh8> > > > 
> Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, > > but by the 
moments that take our breath away > > -=o=- > > > > 
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